On Monday 03 December 2001 05:45, you wrote: > i'm going to be getting a new video card soon. i'm running > freebsd/Xfree-4. what card could you guys recommend? i'm not into 3D > gaming, but i do like the "extras". like transparent menus, fade-in's, etc, > etc. i run KDE as my desktop enviroment.
In my eyes it's a waiste of cpu cycles.... but it's all 2D so you don't need a 3D accelerated card, just a fast 2D one. If you aren't gonna play any games with it I'd recommend a nVidia TNT2 M64 or the likes. Those are really cheap now and probably have enough 2D power for the rest of your lifetime, since 2D can't be much fancier than it is already. > > basically i want something that won't be out dated next week, but i don't > need a ati-radeon 8500 either. is there anything that is being actively > developed with open-source drivers? what about cards that have tv-tuners? > is there any in paticalar that with linux/bsd better than the others? > thanks. and please cc me any replies nVidia has closed source drivers for the X server if you are looking for 3D support. X has opensource drivers which only support 2D as well. I have ran the opensource drivers for a little while and had no problems with them. If you want 3D you need to get the closed source drivers from nVidia. I believe they want to release them open source but can't because of some pieces of code that are patented and thus can't be released to the public. I'm not too sure about that tho', check the website if you want the details. nVidia actively works on their closed source drivers tho' so that's a plus. Ofcourse old cards like an AGP S3 Trio3D or something would do fine probably but I haven't seen those for ages..... The cheapest cards we supply are nVidia TNT2 M64's with 32MB of memory. I don't have any experience with Ati cards... but seeing the lists there are still some issues with those regards _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
